why arent my drives working?

[pikakilla]

hello all
i was trying to burn a cd the other day, and as usual it went wrong.
it got to about 8 percent and then ceased to do anything else.in the end i had to close down the burn and now the light stays on my pioneer 108 dvd burner and it wont open,
and my lg cd burner will open but wont read anything.
im lost and confused
please help a tortured soul!
merry xmas to you all

 

[Techy]

you tried a reboot?

usually cd writing software locks the drive and if something goes wrong it doesn't always unlock it.

James

 

[muckshifter]

...and as usual it went wrong.

Very rarely should things 'go wrong' if you have your PC set-up correctly, are using 'good media' and do not "burn-on-the-fly" or "disk-at-once" as Nero calls it.

In most set-ups, using a Tower Case, it is better to use the second IDE channel for any Optical Drives ... a simple set-up would have the 'Burner' as master and CDROM drive as slave on IDE 2.

Is this an A8V-E Deluxe or A8V Deluxe MB?

What 'Burning' software are you using?

... the light stays on my pioneer 108 dvd burner and it wont open,
and my lg cd burner will open but wont read anything.

Press the "Window Key" and "Pause/Break" to bring up system properties ...
press the Hardware tab then Device Manager tab ...
press the + sign next to your DVD/CDROM ...
Hi-light each drive and "Uninstall" them both ...
Restart & XP should re-install them for you.

Hope that helps.

 

[pikakilla]

thanks guys
got them both back now,
i went into task manager and processes and ended the stuff that was using cpu
and then rebooted and it seems to have worked.
im using poor quality discs, a pc world special buy 2 get one free,
i wont do that again.